THE 


SCHOOL LAW 


OF ILLINOIS 





Circular No. 156 


ISSUED BY 


FRANCIS G. BLAIR 


Superintendent of Public Instruction 


SPECIAL ACTS 


[Printed by authority of the State of Hlinois.] 


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SPECIAL ACTS. 


BOARD OF EDUCATION APPOINTED. 


AN Act to provide for the appointment of school directors and mem- 
bers of the board of education m certain cases. 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinots, 
represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases where, by the 
provisions of any general or special law, the members of any common 
council of any city have been made ex officio school directors, or mem- 
bers of the board of education in and for the school district of which 
the said city shall constitute the whole or a part, the said school direc- 
tors or members of the board of education shall hereafter be appointed 
as hereinafter provided. 

1. The application of this Act relates only to the school districts that 
include the cities of Alton, Carlinville, Galena, LaHarpe, Lake Forest, 
Macomb, Rockford and Waukegan. 

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the mayor of such city, at the first 
regular meeting of the city council, after each annual municipal elec- 
tion, and after his installation into office, to nominate and place before 
the council for confirmation as school directors, or members of the 
board of education, as the case may be, one person from each ward of 
said city to serve for two years, and one person from the city at large 
to serve for one year, and if the persons so appointed shall be con- 
firmed by a majority vote of the city council, to be entered of record, 
the person so appointed, together with such persons theretofore .ap- 
pointed under the provisions of the Act to which this is an amendment, 
whose terms of service shall not expire within one year, shall consti- 
tute the board of education or school directors for such district: 
Provided, that the person appointed from the city at large for one year 
shall be president of said board of education or school directors, but 
shall have no vote in such board excepting in case of a tie: Provided, 
further, that in any city having a population of 45,000 or more, con- 
stituting a school district to which this Act is applicable, the board of 
education shall consist of eleven (11) persons who shall be nominated 
by the mayor from the city at large and confirmed by a majority vote 
of the city council, one of which persons shall be designated by the 
mayor as the president of said board of education, and such person 
shall have no vote except in case of a tie; five members of said board 
of education and such person as may be designated as the president 
thereof shall be nominated by the mayor and placed before the city 
council for confirmation at the first regular meeting of the city council 
after the installation of the mayor into office, and upon confirmation 
by said council shall hold their offices for two years and until their 


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successors shall be chosen as herein provided; the remaining five mem- | 


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bers of said board of education shall be nominated by the mayor and | 
placed before the city council for confirmation at the first regular — 


meeting of the city council next after one year from the date of the 
mayor’s installation into office, and upon confirmation by said council 
shall hold their offices for two years and until their successors shall be 
chosen as herein provided: Provided, that in case a vacancy occurs 
in said board of education at any time by the death or resignation of 


any member thereon, or otherwise, the mayor shall nominate and place — 


before the city council for confirmation at a regular meeting thereof 
some proper person to fill such vacancy, and upon confirmation by the 
city council, the person so nominated shall hold the office during the 
remainder of the term for which his or her predecessor was appointed: 
Provided, further, that the persons now constituting the board of edu- 
cation of cities having a population of 45,000 or more to which this 
Act applies shall hold their offices until their successors shall be chosen 
as herein provided. [As amended by an Act approved and in force 
April 26, 1917. ] 

§ 3. The said persons shall, as soon as practicable after their ap- 
pointment, organize by electing one of their number secretary, who 
shall hold his office for one year. All rights, powers and duties here- 
tofore exercised by and devolved upon the members of the city coun- 
cil, as ex officio members of the board of education, or school directors, 
shall devolve upon and be exercised by the members of the board of 
education and school directors appointed under the provisions of this 
Act. [As amended by Act approved and in force May 28, 1889.] 

§ 4. In all school districts to which this Act shall apply the boards 
of education or school directors shall annually, before the first day of 
August, certify to the city council, under the hands and seals of the 
president and secretary of the board, the amount of money required 
to be raised by taxation for school purposes in said district for the 
ensuing year, and the said city council shall thereupon cause the said 
amount to be levied and collected in the same manner now provided 
by law for the levy and collection of taxes for school purposes in such 
district, but the amount to be so levied and collected shall not exceed 
the amount now allowed to be collected for school purposes by the 
general school laws of this State; and when such taxes have been col- 
lected and paid over to the treasurer of such city or school district, as 
may be provided by the terms of the Act under which such district has 
been organized, such funds shall be paid out only on the order of the 
board of education or school directors, signed by the president and 
secretary of such board. 

§ 5.: That whenever there is no money in the hands of the treas- 
urer of any school district, to which this Act shall apply, for educa- 
tional or building purposes, it shall be lawful for the school directors 
or the board of education of such district to draw and issue warrants 
against and in anticipation of any taxes already levied for educational 
or building purposes, to the extent of seventy-five per centum of the 
total amount of any such taxes levied. Warrants drawn and issued 
under the provisions of this section shall show upon their face that 





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they are payable solely from said taxes when collected, and not other— 
wise, and shall be received by any collector of taxes in payment of the 
taxes against which they are issued, and which taxes against which 
said warrants are drawn shall be set apart and held for their payment. 
Every warrant issued under this section shall bear interest, payable 
only out of the taxes against which it shall be drawn, at a rate not to 
exceed five per centum, per annum, from the date of its issuance until 
paid, or until notice shall be given by publication in a newspaper or 
otherwise, that the money for the payment of said warrant is available, 
and that it will be paid upon presentation. [Added by an Act ap- 
proved May 20, 1915.] 


§ 6. All warrants heretofore draw issued and disposed of by 
the school directors or board of education of any school district, to 
which this Act apples, for educational or building purposes are hereby 
validated, and insofar as such warrants are outstanding and unpaid, 
are hereby made legal and valid obligations of the school district or 
corporate body issuing the same. [Added by an Act approved May 
20, 1915. ] 

§ 7. Any school district to which the ‘Act of which this is an 
amendment applies shall have the power to issue, sell, and negotiate 
its negotiable coupon bonds and use the proceeds derived therefrom 
for the purpose of paying the amount of principal of interest bearing 
warrants and any and all interest accrued and accruing thereon which 
shall have been issued by such district or in behalf thereof prior to 
January 1, 1920, in anticipation of any taxes levied and assessed for 
educational or building purposes. And upon the payment of said war- 
rants or any thereof from the proceeds of the issue, sale and nego— 
tiation of bonds under the power herein given, the taxes in anticipa— 
tion of which said warrants so paid shall have been issued to the 
extent of the total principal of said warrants and interest thereor:: 


shall be used by the school district or school authorities entitled to 
such taxes when collected for the purposes for which said taxes were 
levied and assessed. Any and all bonds which shall be issued here- 
under shall be issued in such form and in such denomination, payable: 


at such place and at such time or times, not to exceed twenty(20} 


years from the date of issue, and shall bear interest at such rate not 


exceeding however, the rate of five percentum per annum, payable 


“semi-annually, as the school directors or boards of education issuing” 
such bonds shall by resolution prescribe. Provided, however, that 
school directors and boards of education of any such school district: 
shall not incur any indebtedness hereunder by the issue of bonds. 


which together with other outstanding indebtedness of such school 


district exceeds in the aggregate five percentum on the valuation of 


taxable property in such school district to be ascertained by the last 
assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of 
such indebtedness. All bonds issued hereunder shall be signed before 
being issued, negotiated, and sold, by the president of the school direc- 
tors or the board of education of the school district for the benefit of 
which said bonds shall be issued, and attested by the clerk, secretary, 
or such other person as the school directors or board of education of 


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such school district may designate, and said bonds shall be counter- 
signed by the treasurer of such school district, and shall be numbered 
and registered by such treasurer in a book provided for such purpose. 
Such treasurer shall record the exact amount for which each bond 
shall be issued, negotiated, and sold, and when any bond shall be paid, 
such treasurer shall duly cancel the same and enter into the register 
opposite to the record of such bond the date, month, and year when 
said bond was paid. Nothing contained in this Act shall take away, 


limit, or abridge the right and power of any school district to which © 


said Act of which this is an amendment is applicable, from issuing 
thereunder interest bearing warrants in anticipation of any taxes levied 
and assessed for educational or building purposes. [Added by an 
Act approved June 28, 1919.| 

APPROVED May 29, 1879. 


BOARD. OF: EDUCATION ELECTED: 


Aw Act to give cities, incorporated towns, townships and districts, in 
which free schools are now managed under special Acts, authority 
to elect boards of education having the same powers as boards of 
education now elected under the general free school laws of this 
State. 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented tn the General Assembly: That any city, incorporated 
town, township or district having a population of not less than 1,000 
and not over 20,000 inhabitants, in which free schools are now man- 
aged under any special Act, may, by vote of its electors, determine to 
elect, instead of the directors or other governing or managing board, 
now provided for by such special Act, a board of education which 
shall be elected at the time and in the manner and have the powers now 
conferred by law upon boards of education of districts not governed 
by any special Act. 

§.2. Upon petition of fifty voters of such city, town, township or 
district, presented to the board having the control and management 
of schools in such city, town, township or district, it shall be the duty 
of such board, at the next ensuing election to be held in such city, 
town, township or district, to cause to be submitted to the voters 
thereof, giving not less than fifteen days’ notice thereof, by posting 
not less than five notices in the most public places in such city, town, 
township or district, the question of “electing a board of education 
having the powers conferred upon such boards in districts organized 
under the free school laws,’ which notice may be in the following 
form, to-wit: 


Public notice is hereby given, that on the...... Cayviol swans Me ena ASD: 
Sg RG , an election will be held at...................., between the hours of 
2 aa RE m. and......m. of said day, for the purpose of deciding the question 


of “electing a board of education having the powers conferred upon such 
‘boards in districts organized under the free school law.’ 


If it shall appear, upon a canvass of the returns of such election, 


that a majority of the votes cast at such election are “for electing a 


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board of education having the powers conferred upon such boards in 
districts organized under the free school law,” then at the time of the 
next regular election for boards of education under the free school 
law, there shall be elected a board of education for such district ; and 
should there not be sufficient time to give the notice required by law 


for such election, then such election may be held on any Saturday 


thereafter, but all subsequent elections shall be held at the time pro- 
vided by the free school law. 
APPROVED June 2, 1891. 


BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN CERTAIN CASES. 


Aw Act to provide for the election of boards of education in school 
districts organized under Special Acts of the Legislature of this 
State, where such school districts are maintained under the general 
school laws of this State, and where there is no provision in such 
special Acts for the election of boards of education. 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: ‘That hereafter, in all school 
districts in this State organized under any special law of this State, 
and maintaining public schools under any general school laws of this 
State, where there is no provision in said special Acts creating such 
special school districts, for the election of boards of education as other- 
wise provided, there shall be elected in each of said special school 
districts, in lieu of the school directors as now provided, a board of 
education, to consist of seven members to be elected at the time and 
in the manner as now provided by the general law for the election and 
qualification of boards of education in other cases: Provided, that at 
the first election of such board, which shall be held on the third Satur- 
day in April, A. D. 1898, two of such members shall be elected to serve 
one year, two to serve two years, and two to serve three years, and a 
president of such board shall be elected, whose term of office shall be 
one year; and annually thereafter there shall be elected in said school 
district two members of such board, whose term of office shall be three: 
years, and there shall also be elected-annually thereafter a president 
of said board. Said board of education, when so elected and qualified, 


* shall have all the powers of trustees of schools in school townships as. 


is now provided by general law. Said board of education, in addition 
to the powers of trustees aforesaid, shall also have all the powers of 
school directors as is now provided for by the general school law of 
this State; and in addition thereto and inclusive thereof, they shall 
have all the powers and perform all the duties of boards of education 
in school districts having a population of not less than 1,000 and not 
over 100,000 inhabitants under the general school law as the same now 
exists and as set forth in article 6 of the school law, or shall be con- 
ferred by any future alterations thereof by the Legislature. (As 
amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901.) 


1. The provisions of this Act govern the schools only in the Illiopolis, 
Lockport, Marion, Naperville and Olney districts. 


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§ 2. Wuereas, An emergency exists, therefore this Act shall take 
effect from and after its pasasge. 
APPROVED June 10, 1897. 


BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS. 


An Act to amend section 1 of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for 
the election of boards of education in certain districts,’ approved 
May 15, 1903, 1n force July 1, 1903. 


SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That section one (1) of an Act 
entitled, “An Act to provide for the election of boards of education in 
certain districts,” approved May 15, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, be and 
the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 


§ 1. That in all school districts in this State, having a population 
of over 35,000 by the last Federal census, existing by virtue of any 
special charter, where the board of directors or board of education is 
elected or appointed by the common council of the city, of which school 
district such city may form the whole or a part, and where there are no 
‘provisions in the special charter creating such school district, for the 
election of a board of directors or board of education, there shall be 
elected hereafter in each of said school districts, in lieu of the present 
governing body, a board of education, to consist of seven members to 
be elected at the same time and in the same manner, as provided by 
the general school law for the election of boards of education in school 
districts having a population of not less than 1,000 and not more than 
100,000 inhabitants. Such board of education when elected and quali- 
fied, shall have all the powers of trustees of schools in school town- 
ships. It shall also have all the powers of boards of directors, and in 
‘addition thereto, all the powers of boards of education elected by virtue 
of the general school law of this State: Provided, however, that where 
any such school district shall lie wholly within or partly within and 
partly without any such city, village or incorporated town and said 
city, village or incorporated town, has adopted or may adopt an Act 
entitled, “An Act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the 
result thereof in cities, villages, and incorporated towns in this State,” 


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approved June 19, 1885, and in force July 1, 1885, and Acts amendatory 


thereof, then the board of directors or board of education of such 
school district shall locate the polling place or places, appoint the judges 
and clerks and otherwise conduct the election in that portion or part of 
the school district that lies without such city, village or incorporated 
town, in the manner now provided by law, except as hereinafter pro- 
vided, but no one residing without such city, village or incorporated 
town shall vote at any polling place within, nor shall any one residing 
within vote at any polling place without, and the votes cast at the 
polling place or places without such city, village or incorporated town, 
shall be returned, certified and canvassed as is now provided by law 
in such cases, and in addition thereto a complete abstract of the vote 
ast and canvassed shall be made, certified and returned to the board 


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of election commissioners of such city, village or incorporated town: 
And, provided, further, that in all that part or portion of such school 
district that lies within such city, village or incorporated town, and in 
such school district, when the same lies wholly within any such city,. 
village or incorporated town, the election for such board of directors or 
board of education shall be conducted by the board of election commis— 
sioners of such city, village or incorporated town and in accordance 
with the provisions of the said Act of June 19, 1885, and the amend- 
ments thereto: And, provided, further, when such school district hes 
partly within and partly without any such city, village or incorporated 
town, the said board of election commissioners shall certify the returns 
received by them from the polling place or places without such city, 
village or incorporated town, to the proper officer or officers; and all 
the returns so certified and returned by the said.board of election com- 
missioners shall be canvassed, together with the returns certified from 
the polling places within stich city, village or incorporated town, by the: 
same canvassing board and the results thereof declared, and certificates. 
of election shall be issued thereon the same as if all such votes had been» 
cast in, certified and returned from such city, village or incorporated. 
town: And, provided, further, that the regular election for the mem— 
bers of such board of education in any such school district lying wholly 
within or partly within and partly without any such city, village or 
incorporated town, which city, village or incorporated town has adopted 
or may adopt said Act of June 19, 1885, and Acts amendatory thereof, 
shall be held on the first Tuesday of the month of April of each and. 
every year after the passage of this Act: And, provided, further, 
that nominations of candidates for the office of member of said board: 
of education to be voted for at all elections provided for in this Act: 
shall be made only by petition in like manner as is provided for nomina~ 
tions of candidates by petition for town offices in counties under town-- 
ship organization by an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the print- 
ing and distribution of ballots at public expense, and for the nomina— 
tions of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding: 
elections, and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot,” approved June 22). 
1891, in force July 1, 1891, and Acts amendatory thereof; such peti~ 
tions to be addressed to and filed in the office of the said board of 
education of such city, village or incorporated town, which board may 
certify to the said board of election commissioners the petitions so 
filed ; except, however, that such petitions for nominations at the elec- 
tion which may be held on the fourth day of April, 1911, may be filed. 
on or before five days before such election; the said elections in other 
respects to be held under the provisions of the said Act of June 22,. 
1891, and Acts amendatory thereof, so far as the same may apply and: 
may not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. 


1. The foregoing section affects only the school districts in which the 
cities of Quincy and Springfield are situate. 


§ 2. WueErEas, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take: 
effect and be in force from and after its passage, 
APPROVED March 29, 1911. 


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BONDS. 


Aw Act to authorize certain school districts to issue bonds for certain 


pur poses. 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
reperesented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of build- 
ing or repairing school houses, or purchasing or improving school 
sites, any school district in this State, existing by virtue of any special 
charter, and governed by such special charter, and special or general 
school laws, whose boundaries are co-extensive with or greater than 
the boundaries of any incorporated city, town or village, where author- 
ized by a majority of all the votes cast at an election called for that 
purpose, may borrow money, and as evidence of such indebtedness, 
may issue bonds in denominations of not less than one hundred (100) 
dollars, nor more than one thousand (1,000) dollars, for a term not 
to exceed twenty (20) years bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 
five (5) per centum, per annum, payable annually, semi-annually or 
quarterly, and signed by the president and secretary of the school 
board of such school district: Provided, that the amount borrowed 
in any one year shall not exceed, including existing indebtedness, five 


(5) per centum. of the taxable property of such school district, to be’ 


ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previ- 
ous to incurring such indebtedness. [As amended by an Act approved 
March 30, 1905.] 

§ 2. All bonds authorized by virtue of this Act, before being 
issued, negotiated and sold, shall be registered, numbered and coun- 
tersigned by the treasurer of such school district. Such register [reg- 
istration] shall be made in a book provided for this purpose and in 
this register shall be entered the record of the election authorizing 
such school district to issue bonds, and a description of the bonds 
issued, including the number, date, amount, rate of interest and when 
payable. 

§ 3. All moneys, borrowed by virtue of this Act, shall be paid 
into the treasury of such school district, and upon receiving such 
moneys, the treasurer shall deliver the bond or bonds issued therefor, 
to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, and shall credit 
the amount received to such school district. The treasurer shall record 
the exact amount received for each bond issued, and when any bond 
is paid the treasurer shall cancel the same, and enter in the register 
opposite the record of such bond, the words “paid and cancelled this 

<da Ol Sean sees meee ” filling the blanks with the date, 
month and year corresponding with the date of such payment. 

§ 4. Whenever it is desired to hold an election for the purpose of 
borrowing money, as provided by this Act, the school board of such 


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district in which such election is to be held, shall give ten (10) days’ 


notice of the holding of such election, by posting notices in at least 
three public places in such school district. Such notices shall specify 
the place where such election is to be held, the time of opening and 
closing the polls and the proposition to be voted on. At such election 
two members of the school board shall act as judges and one shall act 


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as clerk. The judges and clerk shall take the oath required of judges 
and clerks of an election held for county or township officers. At such 
election all votes shall be by ballot. [As amended by an Act approved 
March 30, 1905.]| 


§ 5. Within ten (10) days after such election the judges shall 
cause the poll book to be returned to the treasurer of the said school 
district, with a certificate thereon showing the result of such election. 
The poll book shall be filed by the treasurer, and shall be evidence of 
such election. For a failure to return the poll book to the treasurer 
within the time prescribed, the judges of said election shall be liable, 
severally, to a penalty of net less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor 
more than one hundred (100) dollars, to be recovered in a suit in the 
name of the People of the State of Illinois, before any justice of the 
peace, and when collected shall be added to the school fund of said 
district. 


§ 6. Where any such school district has heretofore issued bonds, 
or other evidences of indebtedness, on account of any public school 
building, or for any other purpose, which are now binding and sub- 
sisting obligations against such school district and remaining outstand- 
ing, such school district may, upon the surrender of any such bonds 
or any part thereof, or other evidence of indebtedness, issue in lieu 
thereof, to the holder or‘holders of said bonds, or to any person or 
persons, for money with which to take up the same, new bonds im 
accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided, such bonds: 
shall not be issued so as to increase the aggregate indebtedness of such: 
school district to exceed, including existing indebtedness, five (5) per- 
centum of the taxable property of such school district, to be ascer-. 
tained by the last assessment for the State and county taxes previous: 
to incurring such indebtedness. 

§ 7. WuHeEreEas, An emergency exists, this Act shall be in full force 
and effect from and after its passage. 

APPROVED and in force May 10, 1901. 


BONDS AGAIN. 


Aw Act giving to the board of education of any school district hav- 
ing a population of less than 100,000 inhabitants, and existing by 
virtue of any special charter and governed by any or all such spe- 
cial charters, the power to borrow money for certain purposes and 
ISSUe negotiable coupon bonds therefor, and providing that the 
proposition or question to borrow money and issue such bonds 
shall be submitted to the voters of such school district. 


SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That the board of education of 
any school district having a population of less than 100,000 inhabitants, 
and existing by virtue of any special charter and governed by any or 
all such special charters, is hereby empowered and authorized to bor- 
row money for the purpose of building schoolhouses, or repairing or 
altering any schoolhouse already erected, or purchasing schoolhouse 


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‘sites or purchasing school grounds adjacent to or adjoining any school- 
house site, or separated therefrom only by a public street or way, and 


‘to issue its negotiable coupon bonds therefor, in such form and such 


-denominations, payable at such place and at such time or times (not 
exceeding twenty years from date of issuance) and bearing interest at 
such rates as said board of education may by resolution prescribe. 
Such bonds shall be in denominations of not less than $100.00 nor more 
‘than $1,000.00, and shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed five per 
-centum per annum, payable semi-annually: Provided, that no money 
shall be borrowed or bonds issued unless the proposition or question 
‘to borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose or purposes and in 
the amount prescribed in said resolution shall be submitted to the voters 
-of such school district at some general or special election held in such 
school district, or at a special election called for such purpose and the- 
‘majority of all the votes cast shall be in favor of such proposition: 
Provided, further, that no such board of education or school district 
shall incur any indebtedness hereunder which together with all other 
<outstanding indebtedness exceeds in the aggregate five (5) per centum 
on the value of taxable property of such school district, to be ascer- 
tained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to 
the incurring of such indebtedness. 


§ 2. Whenever it is desired to submit to» the voters of any school 
district to which this Act applies, the proposition or question to borrow 
money and issue bonds for any or all of the purposes specified in this 
Act, the president or secretary of the board of education of such school 
district shall, in writing, direct the county clerk or board of election 
commissioners, or other authority required by law, to give notice of 
general elections held within the city, town or county wherein such 
school district is situated, to give notice that such proposition or ques- 
tion shall be submitted to the voters of such school district, upon such 
date as the president or secretary shall have in writing specified. And 
thereupon such county clerk, board of election commissioners or such 
other authority shall post or cause to be posted a notice in some public 
place in each election precinct within such school district, twenty (20) 
days prior to. the date of the election at which such proposition or 
question shall be submitted to the voters of such school district, or 
publish or cause to be published once each week for two successive 


weeks, a notice in some secular newspaper of general circulation inand 


published in the city, town or county wherein such school district is 
situated, stating that such proposition or question shall be submitted 
to the voters of such school district. The time and place or places of 
election shall be specified in such notice, and the proposition or ques- 
tion to be voted upon at such election shall be stated therein. 


$3. The ballot to be used at any election when said proposition 
or question shall be submitted to the voters of any school district to 
which this Act applies, shall be a separate distinct ballot, and the total 
amount of the bonds sought to be issued, and the specific purpose or 
purposes for which said bonds shall be issued shall be stated on said 


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ballot. The ballot used at such election shall be substantially in the 
following form: | 


Shall bonds or obligations for the purpose No 
of (state specific purpose) in the sum 
Oise cae 00 be issued by the board 
MeerOducatiOnn Ol. sai ins eke states Yes 











The ballots cast at such election shall be canvassed, and the result 
of such election shall be entered of record and certified to as provided 
by law for other elections in such districts. 

§ 4. All bonds authorized to be issued under and by virtue of 
this Act, before being issued, negotiated and sold shall be signed by the 
president of the board of education of the school district for the bene- 
fit of which said bonds shall be issued, and attested by the secretary 
of such board of education, and countersigned by the treasurer of 
such board of education or of such school district. All of such bonds 
shall be numbered by such treasurer and registered in a book provided 
for such purpose. All moneys borrowed under and by virtue of this 
Act shall be paid into the treasury of such board of education or of 
such school district, and thereupon the treasurer thereof shall deliver 
the bond or bonds therefor to the person, persons, corporation or cor- 
porations entitled to receive the same. Such treasurer shall record the 
exact amount for which each bond shall be issued, negotiated and sold, 
and when any bond shall be paid, the treasurer shall duly cancel the 
same and enter in the register opposite the record of such bond the 
date, month and year when said bond was paid. 

§ 5. This Act shall not be construed to repeal “An Act to authorize 
certain school districts to issue bonds for certain purposes,” approved 
and in force May 10, 1901. 

APPROVED June 29, 1915. 


CAHOKIA PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND. 


Aw Act to provide for the conservation of the property of the village 
and commons of Cahokia in St. Clair County, and to create a per- 
manent school fund for the inhabitants of the said village and com- 
mons. 


SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: The township school treasurer 
of school township numbered one north range ten west, third principal 
meridian, St. Clair County, Illinois, is hereby authorized to receive 
for the use of the common school of the village of Cahokia, all leases, 
reversions, monies, credits, notes, mortgages, bonds or other property 
which the former supervisors of the village of Cahokia, their succes- 
sors in office and the present receiver of the village of Cahokia, their 
successors in office, and the present receiver of the village of Cahokia 
may have, own or control for the use of the inhabitants of the village 


of Cahokia. 


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§ 2. It is the duty of the receiver of the village of Cahokia and of 
any other persons who have, own, or control any such property to de- 
liver the same, upon proper demand, to the said school treasurer and if 
his demand is not complied with, the school treasurer may sue and re- 
cover the same for the use of the common school of the village of 
Cahokia. : 

§ 38. Said township school treasurer shall keep this fund separate 
and apart from such other funds as he may have, and it shall be 
designated by him as the Cahokia Fund. 

§ 4. Said township school treasurer shall, annually, deliver to 
the county superintendent of schools, a statement, under oath, show- 
ing the exact condition of this fund, and a description of all bonds, 
mortgages, notes, leases, reversions and other securities held by him 
for said fund, giving all data necessary for a full understanding of 
the condition of said fund. 

§ 5. The fee simple money as established by law shall not be 
expended in any manner, but the interest money arising from said 
fund may, on the order of the trustees of the village of Cahokia, 
with the consent of the county superintendent of schools, be expended 
for special purposes benefiting the common school in the village of 
Cahokia, but shall not be used for the benefit of any other school in 
said District No. 54. 

§ 6. If, at any time, the village of Cahokia shall become a school 
district separate and apart from District No. 54, in the manner pro- 
vided by general law, the interest money on said fund may be disposed 
of by the township school treasurer, from time to time, upon the 
order of the trustees of said district, in the same manner as provided 
by general school law, but the fee simple money shall remain forever 
intact. 

APPROVED June 27, 1921. 


DELINOUENT sCHIE DREN, 


AN Act to enable school directors and boards of education to establish 
and maintain classes and schools for delinquent children com- 
mitted by courts of competent jurisdiction and providing for the 
payment from the State treasury of the excess cost of maintaining 
and operating the said classes and schools over the cost of main- 
taming and operating elementary schools for normal children. 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That boards of education, school 
directors, and boards of school inspectors, whether acting under the 
general law or a special charter, shall be empowered to establish and 
maintain classes and schools for the delinquent children, residents of 
such cities, committed by courts of. competent jurisdiction. [As 
amended by an Act approved June 23, 1915.] 

§ 2. Such boards of education may acquire site or sites for such 
schools anywhere within the counties in which said cities are situated 
in the same manner as is provided in the case of the acquirement of 


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public school sites in said cities, and authority is hereby expressly 
granted for this purpose. 


§ 3. The board of education establishing and maintaining such 
classes, school or schools, may also employ a superintendent and all 
other necessary officers, agents and teachers for such schools, and shall 
prescribe the method of discipline and the course of instruction therein, 
and shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties as 
are prescribed by law for the establishment, maintenance and manage- 
ment of other classes and schools, and, in addition thereto, shall have 
all powers to carry the terms and provisions of this Act into operation 
and effect. 


§ 4. No person shall be employed to teach any class or classes in 
such school or schools who shall not have first obtained a certificate of 
qualification for teaching in such school or schools as provided by law. 


§ 5. The board of education shall keep an accurate, detailed and 
separate account of all moneys paid out by it for the maintenance of 
such classes and schools, and for the instruction and care of the pupils 
attending them, and shall report the same.to the Board of Administra- 
tion for approval, on voucher forms prescribed by said board, on or 
before the third Monday in August of each year, together with the 
excess of cost for each and every such pupil for each school year 
ending in June, over the last ascertained average cost to such board of 
education for the instruction of normal children in the elementary 
public schools in the city for a like period of time of attendance as 
such excess shall be determined and computed by said board of educa- 
tion. 


§ 6. The aggregate excess cost of the maintenance of such classes 
and schools as determined, computed and reported by the board of 
education as provided in section 5 of this Act shall be and the same 
is hereby made a charge against the State of Illinois and such excess 
cost shall be paid annually to such board of education on the warrant 
of the Auditor of Public Accounts out of any money in the treasury 
appropriated for such purposes, on presentation of proper vouchers 
approved by the Board of Administration: Provided, however, that 
such excess cost for each pupil shall not exceed the following amount: 


Serta ATC GIi CLIPKOT ON © <3 3:5 SA Sows Sha sk place k Pinetree eo lvig dF oe $190 a pupil 


§ 7. All classes and schools established according to any of the 
provisions of this Act shall be subject to the supervision of the Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction. 


§ 8. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and 
directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer on or before the 
first Monday in September of each year for the respective sums of 
excess cost therefore reported to him, as provided in section 5 of this 
Act, upon the order of the Board of Administration. 

APPROVED June 2, 1911. 


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ELECTIONS; SPECIAL. 


An Act to regulate the manner of holding elections in school districts 
having boards of education and operating under special charters. 


SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: In all elections in any school 
district having a board of education elected by the people of the said 
district and operating under a special charter, it shall be the duty of 
the board of education to establish a polling place, or polling places, 
at such school building or school buildings, in such district as will in 
its judgment accommodate the voters of such district, provided that 
in such districts having 10 or more school buildings used as school 
houses, there shall be not less than five polling places established. 


§ 2. It shall be the duty of the board of education in any such 


district to appoint for any election, at least one election judge and one 
clerk for each polling place. So far as possible, at least one member 
of such board of education shall be assigned to each polling place. 

§ 3. Notice of any election in any such district shall be given or 


posted in the manner provided by law for the giving or posting ots 


notices of election in such district. 


§ 4. Because of an emergency, this Act shall be in force and — 


effect from and after its passage. 
APPROVED and in force May 22, 1919. 


EMINENT DOMAIN. 


An Act giving to the trustees of schools, board of school inspectors, 
board of education or other corporate authority managing and 
controlling the public schools of any school district existing by vir- 


tue of any special charter and governed by any or all such special 


charters or special or general school laws of this State, and hav- 


ing a population of fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, the power to 


acquire property and to have the compensation to be paid therefor 
determined by the exercise of the right of eminent domain. 


SecTIoNn 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented im the General Assembly: ‘That whenever any school dis- 
trict existing by virtue of any special charter and governed by any or 


all such special charter or special school laws of this State, and having ~ 


a population of fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, shall require any lot 
or parcel of land: situated within such school district for a site for a 
school building, or for an addition to any school building already 
erected and used for school purposes, or shall require any lot or parcel 
of land situated within such school district for the purpose of a play- 
ground for school children, and the compensation for such lot or parcel 
of land cannot be agreed upon between the owner or owners of such 
lot or parcel of land and the trustees of schools, board of school 


inspectors, board of education or other corporate authority managing — : 


and controlling the public schools of such district it shall be lawful for 
the trustees of schools, board of school inspectors, board of education, 


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or other corporate authority managing and controlling the public 
schools of such district to acquire such lot or parcel of land and have 
the compensation to be paid therefor determined in the manner which 
may at the time be provided by law for the exercise of the right of 
eminent domain. 

APPROVED June 23, 1918. 


EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS. 


Aw Act to allow directors of schools under special laws to assume and 
provide for indebtedness heretofore created by the authorities of 
city for school purposes. 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinots, 
represented in the General Assembly: That whenever any city in this 
State is by special law made a school district, or whenever any school 
district created by special law shall be co-terminus with any city, the 
directors of such district shall have the power, at the request of the 
city council, to assume and provide for, by borrowing and taxation, 
any indebtedness now existing, created by the authorities of the city 
for school purposes. 

APPROVED June 22, 1891. 


PuIGHssCrhOOl DISTRICTS VAEIDATED: 


AN Act to legalize the organization of high school districts comprising 
a school township, including such as have within thesboundaries 
thereof a school district established by special legislative act, and 
to repeal all conflicting provisions of such special legislative acts. 


SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Iilinors, 
represented im the General Assembly: In all cases where a majority of 
the inhabitants of any school township, including any school township 
having within its boundaries a school district established by special 
legislative act, voting on the proposition, having voted at any election 
called for the purpose, by a County Superintendent of Schools, in favor 
of the organization of such school township into a high school district, 
and where a board of education thereafter selected for such high 
school district has exercised control over the affairs of such high 
school district, levied taxes, located and purchased school sites, built 
schoolhouses, issued bonds and operated a high school, such election is 
hereby made legal and valid, and such school township is hereby 
declared legally and validly organized and established as a high school 
district, and a valid and existing school district and body politic and 
corporate of this State for the purpose of establishing and maintaining 
a high school. 

§ 2. The Board of Education so selected and acting for each such 
district is hereby declared to have been and to be the duly constituted 
authority thereof, and all acts and proceedings heretofore done, had 
or performed by each such district, and the persons from time to time 
selected and acting as the Board of Education thereof, such as are 


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authorized to be done, had or performed by such school districts or 
boards of education thereof by the general school laws of the State 
are hereby declared to be legal and valid in all respects ; and each such 
Board of Education hereafter shall consist of a president and six 
members and shall be elected and organized in the same manner and 
have the same powers and discharge the duties of boards of education 
of school districts, as provided in Sections 125, 126, 126a and 127 of 
“Ai Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,” approved 
and in force June 12, 1909, as amended, as said sections now exist, 
or may, from time to time, be amended or supplemented. 

The Board of Education acting for each such high school district 
at the date this Act becomes effective is, and shall continue to be the 
duly constituted governing body thereof, until a new Board of Edu- 
cation shall have been elected and qualified, and such acting Board of 
Education is hereby expressly authorized to call and hold an election 
to elect such new Board of Education. 

§ 3. All elections heretofore called and held by the Board of Edu- 
cation of each such high school district, including elections called for 
the purpose of voting upon the question of issuing bonds of such high 
school district are hereby validated and legalized, and all bonds so 
authorized by a majority of the voters voting upon the question are 
hereby validated, and the Board of Education to be elected, as above 
provided, shall have power to issue and sell such bonds and to poe 
all resolutions necessary for that purpose. 

§ 4. The provisions of any special legislative Act establishing a 
school district are hereby specifically repealed insofar as such provi- 
sions are in conflict with the right of each such high school district 
hereby validated to establish and maintain a high school, and this 
Act shall be construed as evidencing a legislative intent to repeal such 
conflicting provisions and to legalize and validate each such high 
school district, including such as have within the boundaries thereof a 
school district establish by special legislative Act. 

§ 5. All pending actions attacking the organization of districts 
coming under the provisions of this Act shall abate. 

§ 6. The invalidity of any section of this Act shall not affect the 
remainder thereof. 

§ 7. Whereas, an emergency exists. Therefore, this Act shall 
be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. 

APPROVED March 31, 1921. 


HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICS VALIDATED AGAIN, 
Aw Act entitled, “An Act to legalize the organization of high school 


districts having within the boundaries thereof all or part of a - 


school district established by special legislative Acts.” 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 


represented mm the General Assembly: That in all cases where a major- ~ 


ity of the inhabitants of any contigious territory, having therein all 
or part of a school district established by special legislative Act, voting 
on the proposition, have voted at an election called by the County 


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Superintendent of Schools for the purpose, in favor of the organiza- 
tion of such territory into a community high school district, and where 
at a subsequent election similarly called and held, a board of educa- 
tion has been chosen for such district, such territory is hereby de- 
clared legally and validly organized and established as a community 
high school district, and a valid and existing school district and body 
politic and corporate of this State for the purpose of establishing 
and maintaining a high school. The board of education acting for 
each such district is hereby declared to be the duly constituted author- 
ity thereof, and each such board shall hereafter consist of five mem- 
bers and shall be elected and organized in the same manner and have 
the powers and discharge the duties of boards of education of school 
districts as provided by sections 86, 126 and 127 of an Act entitled, 
“An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,” ap- 
proved and in force June 12, 1909, as said sections now exist or may 
from time to time be amended or supplemented. 


§ 2. No irregularity, defect or omission whatsoever, in the time 
or manner of calling, holding or conducting any such elections or in 
the notice thereof, ballots used therein, or returns thereof, shall be 
held to invalidate any such elections. 

§ 3. All Acts and proceedings heretofore done, had or performed 
. by each such district and the persons from time to time elected and 
acting as the board of education thereof, such as are authorized to be 
done, had or performed by school districts or boards of education 
thereof by the general school laws of the State, are hereby declared 
to be legal and valid in all respects. 

§ 4. Whenever the board of education of any such district has 
levied taxes and a certificate of levy has been filed and certified to the 
county clerk or county clerks of the county or counties in which such 
school district is situated, such tax levy is hereby declared to be legal 
and valid notwithstanding such levy shall not have been made, filed 
or certified in the manner or within the time prescribed by law. 

§ 5. Whenever there are two community high school districts, 
or a township high school district, and a community high school 
district, which overlap in territory, that district which shall have first 
established and now continues to conduct a high school, is hereby 
validated and confirmed. 

§6. The provisions of each special legislative Act establishing a 
school district are hereby specifically repealed in so far as such pro- 
visions are in conflict with the right of each community high school 
district hereby validated to establish and maintain a high school, 
and this Act shall be construed as evidencing a legislative intent to 
repeal such conflicting provisions and to legalize and validate each 
such community high school district including within its boundaries 
all or part of a school district established by special legislative Act. 

§ 7%. The invalidity of any section of this Act shall not affect the 
remainder thereof. 

§ 8. Wuereas, An emergency exists, therefore this Act shall be 
in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. 

APPROVED May 10, 1921. 


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JOLTELE<“SCHOGL DIS tRICG 


An Act io provide for the election of boards of school inspectors m 
certain cases, to define the powers and to regulate the revenue 
thereof, to vest the title to certain school property and to repeal 
certain Acts herein named. 


SECTION 1. Be tt enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That in every city in this State 
whose schools have been operating under the provisions of special 
Acts and are governed by a board of school inspectors, and where such 
city, together with territory added thereto for school purposes, includes 
two districts for the purpose of electing six inspectors (three in each 
district) and one district for all other school purposes, there shall 
continue to be elected a board of school inspectors, consisting of six 
members (three in each district) and one inspector at large, who shall 
be chosen for a term of three years. 

§ 2. Such board of inspectors, when elected and qualified, shall 
have power, in addition to the powers conferred upon by special law 
and the general school law, to employ teachers, janitors and stich 
other employees as the board of inspectors shall deem necessary and 
to fix the amount of their compensation; to buy or lease sites for 


school houses, with the necessary grounds; to build, erect, lease or - 


purchase buildings suitable for school purposes; to repair and im- 
prove school buildings and to furnish them with the necessary supplies, 
fixtures, apparatus, libraries and fuel; and such board shall have 
power to let school property on lease-hold, when not needed for school 


purposes, for a term of not longer than ninety-nine years from the- 


date of the granting of the lease; provided that all leases entered into 
for the leasing of said property shall provide for revaluation privileges 


at least once in every ten years, and such board of inspectors shall have 


full power, and it shall be the duty of such board of inspectors to take 
the entire supervision and control of the schools of such district. 
{As amended by an Act approved June 24, 1921. ] 

§ 3. The board of school inspectors shall have the power to levy 
a tax, annually, upon all of the taxable property of such district, in the 
manner provided by Article 8 of the general school law, for the pur- 
pose of maintaining free schools, in accordance with the powers con- 
ferred by section 2 of this Act. All moneys raised by taxation for 
school purposes, or received from the State common school fund, or 
any other source, or now held or hereafter collected for school pur- 
poses, shall be paid to and held by the township treasurer as a special 
fund for school purposes, subject to the order of the board of school 
inspectors, upon warrants signed by the president and_ secretary 
thereof, or a majority of said board. 

§ 4. The title, care and custody of all school houses and school 
sites belonging to such districts shall be vested in the trustees of 
schools of the townships in which such districts are situated: Pro- 
vided, however, that the supervision and control of such school houses 
and school sites shall be vested in the board of inspectors of such dis- 
tricts. 


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§ 5. The trustees of schools of townships in which such districts 
are situated are hereby vested with the power to alter or change the 
boundaries of such school districts when petitioned as provided for 
by the general school law. 

§ 6. “An Act extending the powers of boards of school inspectors 
elected under special Acts,” approved June 19, 1893, as amended by an 
Act approved June 11, 1897, and “An Act increasing the number of 
school inspectors elected under special Acts from six to seven mem- 
bers,’ approved March 6, 1895, “An Act to provide for the election 
of boards of inspectors in certain cases,” approved May 12, 1905, and 
all other Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of 
this Act are hereby repealed. 

APPROVED May 25, 1907. 


KASKASKIA PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND. 


Aw Act to provide for the sale of the Kaskaskia Commons, upon the 
island of Kaskaskia, in the county of Randolph, and to create a 
permanent school fund for the inhabitants of said island out of 
the proceeds of said sale, and to pumsh any person failing to 
comply with the provisions thereof. 


§ 13. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer and the Auditor of 
Public Accounts, upon the commissioners making their final report as 
herein provided, to keep the principal of said fund invested in good 
interest bearing State, county, school, municipal or. other approved 
bonds, or notes secured by mortgage, upon unincumbered realty, so 
as to bring at least five per cent interest annually, the investments 
to be made by the Treasurer. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall 
be the keeper of such securities and the Treasurer, Auditor of Public 
Accounts and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or a majority 
of them, shall approve the securities before the investments are con- 
summated, and shall be investigated to their satisfaction, the loans or 
securities purchased, before the investment is made: Provided, how- 
ever, the land owners of Kaskaskia island shall have the preference 
to borrow the money upon their lands when the security they offer is 
approved by the officers aforesaid. 

The Auditor of Public Accounts shall keep an accurate and cor- 
rect record of the investments and the income derived therefrom and 
shall see that such income is collected and paid to the Treasurer. Such 
income shall be paid out by the Treasurer for educational and building 
purposes only, as authorized and required by the general school law 
of the State, and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall issue warrants 
for such educational and building purposes upon certified, itemized 
bills of the proper school officers of the island of Kaskaskia when 
filed with him and approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion: Provided, however, the school directors shall be authorized to 
purchase from the income on the proceeds derived from the sale of 
Kaskaskia Commons text-books for all pupils attending school on the 
island. If it shall appear on the first Mondays of April and of October, 
in each year, that there is rent, interest or other funds not required 


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for distribution, then in such case the amount not required for dis- 
tribution shall be added to the principal of the Kaskaskia Commons 
permanent school fund, become a part thereof, and invested as such. 


The school directors of the district of the island of Kaskaskia 
shall on or before the first day of July, in each year, ascertain as near 
as possible, how much money will be needed for educational and 
building purposes for the next ensuing year, and from the total esti- 
mate they shall deduct- the balance in the hands of the treasurer 
held by him to the credit of the district and received from the State 
distributive fund or from other sources, so as to show the net amount 


needed and shall make a record of same. The clerk of the board 


shall thereupon make and forward to the Superintendent of Public 
Instruction a certified copy of the record. Upon receipt of the certi- 
fied copy of such record, the Superintendent of Public Instruction 
shall examine the estimates and make such changes in said estimates, 
increasing or reducing any of the items thereof or the entire amount 
as in his judgment or discretion he may deem best for the interest 
of the said schools of the island and his decision shall be final and 
binding. It shall be the further duty of the Superintendent of Public 
Instruction to forward certified copies of the estimates as approved 
by him to the Auditor of Public Accounts and the school directors of 
the island of Kaskaskia. Upon receipt of the estimates approved by 
the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the “Auditor of Public 
Accounts shall set apart the amounts so certified and approved for 
the use and benefit of the public schools of the island of Kaskaskia. 
No contract in excess of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for the ex- 
penditure of money shall be entered into by the school board or school 
boards until it has been submitted to and approved by the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction. [As amended by an Act ap- 
proved June 25th, 1915. ] 


PENSION FUND——SPECIAL. 


Aw Act to enable any board of school inspectors, or any body or board 
of officials, which governs, or has charge of the affairs of any 
school district having a population of not fewer than 10,000 and 
not more than 100,000 inhabitants, and governed by special Acts 
of the General Assembly of this State and in such other districts 
as may hereafter be ascertained by any special or general census 


to have such population and which school districts are also gov- 


erned by like special Acts, to establish and maintain a teachers’ 
pension and retirement fund. 


Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That in all school districts, hav- 
ing a population of not fewer than 10,000, and not more than 100, 000 
inhabitants organized under and governed by special Acts of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. of this State and in such other districts as may here- 
after be ascertained by any special or general census to have a popula- 


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tion of not less than thirty thousand nor more than one hundred thou- 
sand and which may also/be governed by any such special Acts, the 
board of school inspectors, of every such district, or the body or board 
of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such 
school district, may establish and maintain in and for said district 
a teachers’ pension and retirement fund. 

§ 2. Said board of school inspectors, or the body or board of off- 
cials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school 
district wherein the provisions of this Act may be made operative, shall 
cause to be elected a board of management for the purpose of carrying 
out the provisions of this Act. Said board of management shall con- 
sist of either three or nine members, as said board of school inspectors, 
or the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, 
the affairs of any such school district shall determine. T’wo-thirds of 
the membership of said board of management shall consist of members 
of the active teaching force of said district, who are contributors to 
said pension and retirement fund and they shall be elected by the mem- 
bers of said active teaching force of said district who are contributors 
to said pension and retirement fund, in such manner and for such terms 
as said board of school inspectors, or the body or board of officials 
which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school dis- 
trict shall by resolution determine. One-third of the membership of 
said board of management shall consist of members of the said board 
of school inspectors, or the body or board of officials which governs, 
or has charge of, the affairs of any such school district. Such repre- 
sentative shall be selected by such board of. school inspectors, or the 
_ body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs 
of any such school district for such terms as said board may by reso: 
lution determine. 

§ 3. The teachers’ pension and retirement fund shall consist of 
moneys contributed by teachers under the provisions of this Act; also 
of moneys received from donations, legacies, gifts, bequests and other- 
wise, of moneys paid into said fund in pursuance of any law now in 
force or hereafter enacted; and of any sum or sums payable thereto 
from the common school fund of the State as may. be provided by 
law: Provided, that any amounts taken from the common school fund 
shall be taken only from that part of said fund which under the law 
‘ would otherwise be distributable to counties or districts coming under 
the provisions of this Act. The board of school inspectors or the 
body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs 
of any school district wherein the provisions of this Act are or may 
become operative, may appropriate and pay into the teachers’ pension 
and retirement fund, annually, in addition to moneys placed in such 
fund from interest on the district funds raised by taxation and inter- 
est on the proceeds from the sales of any school lands of such dis- 
trict, as provided by law, a sum not to exceed in amount the aggre- 
gate of the sums set apart and contributed to such fund from the 
salaries of teachers in the employ of such board of school inspectors, 
or body or board of officials. [As amended by an Act approved June 
24, 1921.] 


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§ 4. The board of school inspectors, or the body or board of 
officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school 


district, shall have charge of such funds and shall invest the same at 


interest. The rate of interest, which shall not be less than four per 
cent, nor more than seven per cent, per annum, payable annually, shall 
be determined by a majority of the said board of school inspectors, or 
the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of the 
affairs of any such school district, at any regular or special meeting. 
No loan shall be made for less than one year nor more than five years. 
All loans shall be secured by mortgage on unencumbered realty situated 
in this State, worth at least fifty per cent more than the amount. loaned, 
with a condition that in case additional security shall be required at 
any time it shall be given to the satisfaction of the board of school in- 
spectors or body or board of officials. In estimating the value of realty 
mortgaged to secure the payment of money loaned, the value of im- 
provements liable to be destroyed may be included; but in such case 


the improvements shall be insured for their insurable value in a re-— 


sponsible insurance company or companies, and the policy or policies 
shall be transferred to the board of school inspectors or body or board 
of officials as additional security and shall be kept so insured until the 
loan is paid. Nothing herein shall prevent the investing of the princi- 


pal of the said fund in bonds issued by the State, the Sanitary District — 


of Chicago, counties, townships and cities in this State and in bonds 


of such school district when the same have been issued for the pur- — 


pose of building or repairing school houses, in such district, or purchas- 
ing and improving school sites, when the issuance of such bonds has 
been authorized by the majority of the votes cast at an election held 
for that purpose. Said board of school inspectors, or body or board of 
officials, shall have the power to make payments from such fund of 
pensions and annuities granted in pursuance of this Act. 

§ 5. Any person who shall be employed to teach in the public 
schools of the district where the provisions hereof may be in force 
after this Act. shall take effect, shall be entitled to the benefits of 
the said fund upon complying with the provisions of this Act, and 
for the purpose of this Act, such persons shall be divided into the 
following classes: 


First—Those who have taught five years or fewer than five — 


years in the public schools 


Second—Those who Mare taught more than fae years and not 
more than ten years. 


Third—Those who have taught more than ten years and not 


more than fifteen years. 
Fourth—Those who have taught more than fifteen years. 
After this Act shall take effect, there shall be set apart from 


the salaries of each teacher in the employ of the board of school ~ 


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inspectors, or the body or board of officials which governs, or has 


charge of, the affairs of any such school district $5.00 per annum 
while they remain in the first class; $10.00 per annum while they 
remain in the second class; $15.00 per annum while they remain in 


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the third; and $30.00 per annum while they remain in the fourth 
class, which amounts shall be deducted by the board of school inspec- 
tors, or the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge 
of, the affairs of any such school district, in equal installments from 
their respective salaries at the regular times for the payment thereof, 
and be paid into and constitute a part of the said teachers’ pension and 
retirement fund of the district. 

§ 6. Teachers who become contributors to, and beneficiaries of 
the said pension and retirement fund, under provisions of this Act 
may count past services as a part of the period of twenty-five years 
hereinafter specified, by paying into the fund a sum equal to that 
which he or she would have contributed under the provisions of this 
Act, had he or she been a regular contributor to said fund during said 
period of past service, together with interest thereon at the rate of 
four per cent per annum from the time such payments -would have 
been made had such person during such time been a contributor to such 
fund, to the time such person shall by making such payment become 


entitled to the benefits and credit of such past service. 


§ 7. The board of management shall adopt a resolution declaring 
and fixing the maturity of service and the right to the immediate 
benefits of the fund, in favor of the persons entitled to the benefits 
thereof in the following cases: 


First—When any persons shall have taught in the public schools 
for a period of twenty-five years within the meaning of this Act. 


Second—When any contributor to the fund shall have taught fif- 
teen years in public schools, within the meaning of this Act, and shall 
have been declared by three competent physicians who have made a 
physical examination of the teacher, at the request of the board of 
management, to be suffering from a permanent disability: Provided, 
however, that the board of management shall not declare any con- 
tributor entitled to the immediate benefits of the fund until he or she 
shall have taught in the public schools of the district three-fifths of 
the term of service of 25 or 15 years, as the case may be: And, pro- 
vided, further, that no person shall be entitled to the benefits of the 
fund until he or she shall have retired from service as a teacher. 


§ 8. Each teacher so retired or retiring after twenty-five years of 
service shall be entitled thereafter to receive from said fund an annuity 
not to exceed $400.00, and each teacher so retired, because of per- 
manent disability, after fifteen years of service shall receive from said 
fund as an annual pension such proportion of the full annuity of 
$400.00 as the sum contributed by such teacher so retired bears to the 
total contributions required for a full annuity. Pensions and annuities 
shall be paid monthly during the school year out of the said fund 
created in accordance with the provisions of this Act, in the manner 
and at the times provided by law for the payment of the salaries of 
teachers. 

§ 9. The president and secrtary of the board of school inspectors 
or the body or board of officials, which governs or has charge of the 
affairs of any such school district, shall certify monthly to the treasurer 


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of such fund all amounts deducted from the salaries of teachers,. 
special teachers, principals and superintendents in accordance with the 
provisions of this Act, which amounts together with all other moneys 
contributed to the fund, shall be set apart and held by the treasurer 
of the district as a special fund for the purposes herein specified, and 
shall be paid out on recommendation of the board of management 
upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of the board of 
school inspectors, or the body or board of officials, which governs or 
has charge of the affairs of any such school district. 

§ 10. The treasurer of the district or of the board of school 
inspectors or body or board of officials, which governs or has charge 
of the affairs of any such school district, shall be ex officio the cus- 
todian of the pension and retirement fund, and shall hold the same 
subject to the control and direction of the board of school inspectors, 
or body or board of officials, which govern or has charge of the affairs. 
of any such school district in accordance with the provisions of this 
Act. The said treasurer shall keep his books and accounts concerning 


such fund in the manner prescribed by the board of school inspectors, — 


or the body or board of officials, which governs or has charge of the 
affairs of any such school district and his books and accounts shall be 
subject to the inspection of the board of school inspectors, or the body 
or board of officials, which governs or has charge of the affairs of any 
such school district, or any member thereof or the board of manage- 
-ment or any member thereof. The treasurer shall be lable on his 
official bond for the proper performance of his duties and the conserva- 
tion of the fund created by this Act, and such treasurers’ bonds in all 
districts where this Act may be in force shall be so conditioned as to 
cover the lability for such fund. Any legal proceedings which may be 
necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act shall be 
brought by and in the name of the board of school inspectors, or the 
body or board of officials, which governs or has charge of the affairs 
of any such school district, for the use of the pension and retirement 
fund. If at any time a teacher who is willing to continue as a teacher 
in the schools of said district is not re-employed as such or is dis- 
charged as such before the time at which he or she would be entitled 
to a pension under the provisions of this Act, then to such teacher shall 
be refunded the money he or she may have contributed to said fund. 
Any teacher who shall retire voluntarily from the service of said 
district prior to entering the fourth class above defined shall receive a 
refund of one-half the money he or she shall have theretofore con- 
tributed to such fund. 

§ 11. All persons who shall be employed as teachers by the board 
of school inspectors, or the body or board of officials which governs, 
or has charge of the affairs of any such school district, shall accept the 


provisions of this Act by such accepting or continuing in such employ- _ 


ment; and thereupon become liable as contributors to the pension and 
retirement fund in accordance with the terms thereof. And the pro- 
visions of this Act shall become a part of and enter into any such con- 
tract of employment as fully as though the same were specifically set 
forth in said contract of employment. 


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§ 12. All pensions, or annuities, granted under the provisions of 
this Act and every portion thereof, shall be exempt from attachment 
or garnishment process and shall not be seized, taken, subjected to, 
detained or levied upon by virtue of any execution, or any process or 
proceedings whatsoever issued out of or by any court for the payment 
or satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt, claim, damage, demand _ 
or jttdgment against any pensioner or annuitant hereunder, and no 
annuitant or pensioner shall have the right to transfer or assign his 
or her pension or annuity or any part thereof either by way of mort- 
gage or otherwise. 

§ 13. The said treasurer shall not be entitled to retain any interest 
accruing from any pension and retirement fund, but all such interest 
earned thereon shall be covered into such fund, become a part thereof, 
and be subject to the purposes of this Act. The treasurer shall also 
set aside annually and place in such fund all interest accruing from the 
district funds of the district (whether levied for educational or build- 
ing purposes) and as well all interest earned by money coming from 
the investment of the proceeds of the sales of any school lands of said 
district. 

§ 14. If any school district where there is not sufficient revenue 
from interest and contributions to maintain a teachers’ pension fund 
under the foregoing provisions hereof, such school district may, by a 
majority vote of its electors at an election for such purpose, establish a 
fund for the retirement of teachers who are over fifty years old, and 
who have faithfully served such district for twenty-five years. The 
fund shall be derived from such revenues.as may lawfully be devoted 
to the said purpose by the directors of a district, or by direct appropri- 
ation by a town. The amount of the annual pension allowed to any 
person, under the provisions of this section, shall not exceed one-half 
the annual compensation received by such person at the time of the 
retirement of such person; in no case, however, shall the same exceed 
four hundred dollars ($400.00) per annum. 

§ 15. If the board of school inspectors, or governing board of 
any such school district that may be within the terms of this Act, 
heretofore and subsequent to July 1, 1911, sought to establish and 
maintain a teachers’ pension and retirement fund, without legal author- 
ity so to do, all Acts done with reference thereto are hereby validated, 
and shall be given the same force and effect in law and equity, as if 
they had been done under this Act. 

§ 16. The provisions of this Act shall apply to the board of school 
inspectors of the city of Peoria, and to all other boards of directors, 
boards of education and boards of school inspectors, in districts within 
the limits of population above fixed, that exist under and by virtue of 
any special school charter heretofore granted to any such district by 
the said State of Illinois. 

§ 17. The word “teachers” shall be held to include all teachers, 
superintendents, assistant teachers and school principals, who may be 
employed in the public schools of a district. 

§ 18. If any school district organized under any special Act of the 
General Assembly shall create a teacher’s pension and retirement 


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fund, under the provision of this Act, and shall thereafter cease to 
exist under such special Act, and shall operate under the general schook 
laws, then and in such event, the said fund shall be continued, main- 


tained and administered under such general law by the proper officers — 


of said district, and all persons holding any part of said fund or 

records, relating to it, shall deliver the same to the proper officers of 
" said new, or reorganized school district; and all the rights of all 
persons in and to said fund, shall be continued, and as well all the 
liabilities of all persons toward such fund shall continue as fully as 
though such original school district had been operating under the 
general school laws, rather than a special Act or charter, at the time 
such fund was created. 

APPROVED June 27, 1913. 


PLAY, GROUNDS: 


AN Act authorizing school districts to acquire real estate by gift, dona- 
tion or devise for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and 
operating play grounds, recreation grounds and athletic fields and 
to provide for the policing thereof. 


SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illimois, 
represented in the General Assembly: Any school district in this State 
organized and existing under the general law or by special charter 
is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift, donation or 
devise, real estate, and to hold the same, not to exceed ten (10) acres 
in school districts having less than ten thousand inhabitants, for the 


purpose of establishing play grounds, recreation grounds and athletic — 


fields, and to equip the same and to operate and maintain the same, 
the cost of equipping, maintaining and operating the same to be paid 
from the building fund levied, collected and appropriated in such 
school district. 


§ 2. Such real estate so acquired need not be contiguous to any 
other school property or real estate owned by such school district. 


§ 3. If such real estate so acquired by such school district shall 
lie partly or wholly outside the corporate limits of any city, village or 
incorporated town situated in such district, then such real estate so 
acquired shall, if the same be situated within one mile of the corporate 
limits of any such city, village or incorporated town in such school dis- 
trict, be under the police control and protection of the police force or 
police department of such city, village or incorporated town, and it is 
hereby made the duty of any such city, village or incorporated town 
to exercise police control and protection over such real estate and its 
equipment, in the same manner and to the same extent that such city, 
village or incorporated town would exercise police control and protee- 
tion thereover if such real estate were situated within the ee 
limits of such city, village or incorporated town. 

§ 4. Whereas, an emergency exists; therefore, this Act shall be 1 in 
force and effect from and after its passage. ; 

APPROVED June 26, 1917. 


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REVENUE. 
An Act to establish and provide a system of free schools. 


§ 189. For the purpose of establishing and supporting free schools 
for not fewer than seven months in each year and defraying all the ex- 
penses of the same of every description for the purpose of building, 
repairing and improving school houses, or procuring school land, furni- 
ture, fuel, libraries and apparatus, and for all other necessary in- 
cidental expenses in each district, village or city, having a population 
of less than two hundred thousand inhabitants, the directors, the board 
of education and the authorities of such district, village or city, as the 
case may be, shall be authorized to levy a tax annually upon all the tax- 
able property of the district, village or city not to exceed, except as 
hereinafter stated, two per cent for educational purposes and three- 
quarters of 1 per cent for building purposes and the purchase of 
school grounds, upon the valuation to be ascertained by the last as- 
sessment for State and County taxes: Provided, that any sum expended 
or obligations incurred for the improvement, repair or benefit of school 
buildings and property shall be paid from that portion of the tax 
levied for building purposes and the purchase of school grounds. 
Provided, however, that if the directors or the board of education in 
any such district, village or city shall desire to levy or cause to be levied 
in any one year more than two per cent but not more than three per 
cent for education purposes and more than three-quarters of one per 
cent but not MORE than one per cent for building purposes and the 
purchase of school grounds, such directors or board of education may, 
by resolution stating the per cent so desired, cause a proposition for 
an assent thereto to be submitted to the voters of such district, village 
or city at any general or special election, and if at such election a ma- 
jority of the votes cast on said proposition shall be in favor thereof, 
the directors or board of education of such district, village or city may 
thereafter until such authority is revoked in like manner, levy annu- 
ally for educational purposes a tax in excess of two per cent but not 
exceeding the per cent mentioned in said proposition, and a tax for 
building purposes and the purchase of school grounds, in excess of 
three-quarters of one per cent but not exceeding the per cent mentioned 
in said proposition for such purposes. Such propositions may be sub- 
mitted at any time, and from time to time, to the voters of such district, 
village or city, at any such election either at the instance of such di- 
rectors or board of education and such directors or board of education 
shall levy or cause to be levied no tax in excess of two per cent for edu- 
cational purposes, or in excess of two per cent for educational pur- 
poses, or in excess of three-quarters of one per cent for building 
purposes and purchase of school grounds, that shall not be authorized 
by the result of such election ascertained as aforesaid, unless and un- 
til assented to by the voters of such district, village or city in like 
manner. 

APPROVED. June 27, 1921. 


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SALEZ OR -REATA Y, 


An Act providing that the board of education of any school district 
existing by virtue of any special charter may sell real estate con- 
veyed to it heretofore or hereafter by any city for school purposes 
and use the proceeds derived therefrom for school building pur- 


poses or for the purchase of other real estate for such purposes. 


SecTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That the board of education of 
any school district existing by virtue of any special charter may sell 
and dispose of any and all real estate heretofore and hereafter con- 
veyed to it by any city for school purposes, and use the proceeds 
derived from the sale thereof for school building purposes or for the 
purchase of other real estate for such purposes. 


§ 2. Any and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the pro-: 


visions hereof are hereby repealed. 
APPROVED June 26, 1917. 


SPECIAL CHARTERS DISCONTINUED: 


AN Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools. 


§ 51. Any city, township or district in which schools are now managed 


under any special Act, may, by vote of its electors, cease to control 
its schools under such special Act, and becomes part of the school 


township, or townships, in which it is situated. Upon petition of. 


fifty voters of such city, township or district, presented to the board 
having the control and management of the public schools, it shall be 
the duty of such board to cause to be submitted to the voters at the 
next ensuing election to be held in such city, township or district, the 
question of “organizing under the general school law.” Notice shall 
be given by posting notices in the five most public places in such city, 
township or district, at least fifteen days before the date of holding 
such election, which notices shall be in the following form, to-wit: 


NOTICE OF ELECTION, 


Notice is hereby given, that on the........ day. Of .5 eee ae J eee ; 
an election will-be held ati... on) ea for the purpose of deciding the 
question of organizing under the general school law. The polls will be 
opened at ........ o clock,.3.4. M.,,and closed abu. cee o'clock, %....2 

(Signed) -os\c.-< 6c ete w oct cee Bele 


If it shall appear, upon a canvass of the returns, that a majority 
of the votes cast at such election are in favor of organizing under 
the general school law, then the board having the control and manage- 
ment of schools in such city, township or district shall give notice of 
an election to be held on any Saturday thereafter, according to the 
provisions of this Act, for the purpose of electing a board of directors 


or board of education, as the case may require; but all subsequent 


elections shall be held on the third Saturday of April annually. 
APPROVED June 12, 1909. 


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WARRANTS. 
Aw Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools. 


§ 117. When there is no money in the treasury of any school 
district of this State, whether governed by either or both the General 
School Law or any special charter to defray the necessary expenses 
of the district, the directors, board of education or board of school 
inspectors, as the case may be, may issue warrants against and in 
anticipation of any taxes levied for the payment of the necessary 
expenses of the district, either for educational or for building pur- 
poses, as the case may be, to the extent of seventy-five per cent of 
the total amount of the tax so levied. Such warrants shall show upon 
their face that they are payable solely from such taxes when collected, 
and shall be received by any collector of taxes in payment of the 
taxes against which they are issued, and such taxes shall be set apart 
and held for their payment. Every warrant issued under the pro- 
visions of this section shall bear interest, payable only out of the 
taxes against which it is drawn, at a rate not exceeding six per centun 
per annum, from the date of its issuance until paid or until notice 
shall be given by publication in a newspaper or otherwise, that the 
money for its payment is available and that it will be paid on pre- 
sentation, unless a lower rate of interest shall be specified therein, in 
which case the interest shall be computed and paid at said lower rate. 
[As amended by an Act approved June 24, 1921.] 





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